Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:52:01PM CEST, amritha.namb...@intel.com wrote: >This patch introduces a TC range classifier to support filtering based >on ranges. Only port-range filters are supported currently. This can >be combined with flower classifier to support filters that are a >combination of port-ranges and other parameters based on existing >fields supported by cls_flower. The 'goto chain' action can be used to >combine the flower and range filter. >The filter precedence is decided based on the 'prio' value.
For example Spectrum ASIC supports mask-based and range-based matching in a single TCAM rule. No chains needed. Also, I don't really understand why is this a separate cls. I believe that this functionality should be put as an extension of existing cls_flower.